Modern Data Stack

Datacast Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang

Datacast Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang

Casber Wang is Partner at Sapphire Ventures. He focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data analytics.

He is on the boards of Huntress, JumpCloud, StarTree, Tetrate, Upytcs, and Zesty. For his work, Insider listed Casber as an Enterprise VC Rising Star Investor and as an emerging investor charting the industry’s future on the 2022 EVC List.

Prior to Sapphire, he was part of the technology investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked on a number of high-profile IPO and M&A transactions. He also spent time at Wish, a leading mobile commerce platform in North America and Europe.

Datacast Episode 122: The Evolution of Data Visualization, Scaling Data Culture, and The Future of Data Transformation with Gabi Steele

Datacast Episode 122: The Evolution of Data Visualization, Scaling Data Culture, and The Future of Data Transformation with Gabi Steele

Gabi Steele is the co-founder and co-CEO of Preql, a no-code data transformation tool that empowers business users to model and manage their own metrics. She is also the co-founder of Data Culture, a data engineering and visualization consultancy. Previously Gabi led data visualization engineering at WeWork and worked on data storytelling at the Washington Post.

Datacast Episode 120: Next-Generation Experimentation, Statistics Engineering, and The Modern Growth Stack with Chetan Sharma

Datacast Episode 120: Next-Generation Experimentation, Statistics Engineering, and The Modern Growth Stack with Chetan Sharma

Chetan Sharma is the Founder & CEO of Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform that is designed to spur entrepreneurial culture.

As the 4th data scientist at Airbnb and an early data scientist at companies like Webflow, Chetan has been focused on the maturity curve of growth-stage companies and how to establish data as a central stakeholder in decision-making. He previously led the team that developed Airbnb's knowledge repo and has led data teams focused on production machine learning and instrumentation integrity.

Datacast Episode 113: Data Applications, Real-Time Analytics, and Cloud Product Management with Shruti Bhat

Datacast Episode 113: Data Applications, Real-Time Analytics, and Cloud Product Management with Shruti Bhat

Shruti Bhat leads product management and marketing at Rockset. Before Rockset, she led Product Management for Oracle Cloud, focusing on AI, IoT, and Blockchain. Previously, she was the VP of Marketing at Ravello Systems, where she drove the start-up's rapid growth from pre-launch to hundreds of customers and a successful acquisition. Before that, she was responsible for launching VMware's vSAN and led engineering teams at HP and IBM. Shruti has a bachelor's in computer science engineering and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Datacast Episode 112: Distributed Systems Research, The Philosophy of Computational Complexity, and Modern Streaming Database with Arjun Narayan

Datacast Episode 112: Distributed Systems Research, The Philosophy of Computational Complexity, and Modern Streaming Database with Arjun Narayan

Arjun Narayan is the co-founder and CEO of Materialize. Materialize is a streaming database for real-time applications and analytics, built on top of a next-generation stream processor – Timely Dataflow. He was previously an engineer at Cockroach Labs and held a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Datacast Episode 101: Scaling Data Engineering, Building Data Teams, and Managed Data Stack with Tarush Aggarwal

Datacast Episode 101: Scaling Data Engineering, Building Data Teams, and Managed Data Stack with Tarush Aggarwal

Tarush Aggarwal is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth, with over ten years of experience in the field.

After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2011, he became the first data engineer on the analytics team at Salesforce.com. Data was in its infancy, and the log metric framework he built was critical in allowing Salesforce to analyze data across customers and provide benchmarks across different industries and verticals.

Most recently, Tarush led Data for WeWork. WeWork leveraged data to grow 10x in 3 years, supporting a footprint of 800+ offices in 120+ cities in 23+ countries with over 12,000 employees, making WeWork one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. He scaled the data org from 2 to 100+, and their unique approach allowed them to stay lean while supporting every functional area of the business. In 2019, he moved to China to help establish WeWork’s Asia operations and focus on the hyper-growing Chinese market.

Datacast Episode 95: Open-Source DataOps, Building In Public, and Remote Work Culture with Douwe Maan

Datacast Episode 95: Open-Source DataOps, Building In Public, and Remote Work Culture with Douwe Maan

Douwe Maan is the founder and CEO of Meltano, an open-source DataOps platform. Before joining Meltano, he was hired as the tenth employee at GitLab, later becoming an Engineering Manager. While at GitLab, he spent six months traveling the world, visiting colleagues in 14 different countries. In 2019, he joined the internal Meltano project at GitLab and quickly became its General Manager. In early 2021, Douwe led Meltano in spinning out of GitLab to become an independent startup, raising seed funding from investors led by Alphabet's GV.

Datacast Episode 94: Modern Metadata Management, Open-Source Adoption, and Early-Stage Culture with Mars Lan

Datacast Episode 94: Modern Metadata Management, Open-Source Adoption, and Early-Stage Culture with Mars Lan

Mars Lan is the co-founder and CTO of Metaphor Data, a startup that offers a Modern Metadata Platform to solve many complex organizational data challenges, such as data discovery and data governance. He also co-created the popular open-source project DataHub while working as the Tech Lead of the metadata team at LinkedIn. Mars received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Datacast Episode 91: Collaborative Data Workspace, The Sharing Gap, and Engineering Management with Caitlin Colgrove

Datacast Episode 91: Collaborative Data Workspace, The Sharing Gap, and Engineering Management with Caitlin Colgrove

Caitlin Colgrove is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hex Technologies, a collaborative data workspace for building and sharing data projects using SQL and Python. Caitlin has spent her career as a software engineer building data analytics tools, first at Palantir and then later at startups including Remix and Hex. As a CTO, her focus has expanded from purely technology to growing and developing diverse and inclusive engineering teams.

Datacast Episode 90: Operational Analytics, Reverse ETL, and Finding Product-Market Fit with Kashish Gupta

Datacast Episode 90: Operational Analytics, Reverse ETL, and Finding Product-Market Fit with Kashish Gupta

Kashish Gupta is the founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, a data startup based out of San Francisco. He grew up in Atlanta, loves playing racket sports, and always wanted to be an inventor when he grew up. He studied Machine Learning in college and had a short stint at a VC firm called Bessemer Venture Partners, and ever since graduating has been working on Startups. He and his co-founders are on their 5th business idea and have finally found a product-market fit.